Malgorzata Fidelis
Curriculum Vitae

Personal: 

Rank:

Assistant Professor
Department of History


Address:

1023 University Hall
University of Illinois at Chicago
601 South Morgan Street
Chicago, IL 60607
Phone: (312) 413-1227
Fax: (312) 996-6377
E-mail: gosia01@uic.edu

Education:

· Ph.D., History, Stanford University, 2006 (dissertation: “The New Proletarians: Women Industrial Workers and the State in Postwar Poland, 1945-1957.”)
· M.A. History, Stanford University
· B.A. with Honors, History, University of California, Davis, 1998
 
Areas of Expertise: 

o Eastern Europe
o Modern Europe
o Gender
o Comparative Communist Systems


Publications: 
Journal Articles and Book Chapters:

· “Equality through Protection: The Politics of Women’s Employment in Postwar Poland, 1945-1956,” Slavic Review 63 (Summer 2004), 301-324
· “Młode robotnice w mieście. Percepcje kobiecej seksualności w Polsce w latach pięć· dziesiątych XX-go wieku (Young Women Workers and the City. Perceptions of Female Sexuality in Poland in the 1950s),” in Kobieta i małżeństwo. Społeczno-kulturowe aspekty seksualności (Woman and Marriage. Social and Cultural Aspects of Sexuality), edited by Anna Żarnowska and Andrzej Szwarc (Warsaw: Wydawnictwo DiG, 2004), 453-475
· “’Participation in the Creative Work of the Nation:’ Polish Women Intellectuals in the Cultural Construction of Gender Roles, 1864-1890,” Journal of Women’s History 13 (Spring 2001): 108-131

Encyclopedia Articles:

· “Poland” in Encyclopedia of Women in World History, edited by Bonnie G. Smith (New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming)
· “Warsaw Pact” in Encyclopedia of Europe, 1914-2004, edited by John Merriman and Jay Winter (New York: Macmillan, forthcoming)


Awards and Fellowships:

· Mellon Dissertation Fellowship, School of Humanities and Sciences and the Humanities Center, Stanford University, 2004-2005

· Graduate Dissertation Fellowship, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Stanford University, 2004-2005

· Prize for Best Undergraduate Seminar Designed and Taught by a Graduate Student, “Women and Communism in Eastern Europe andRussia,” History, Stanford University, 2004

· IIE Fulbright Research Grant, Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, 2002-2003

· Department Fellowship, History, Stanford University, 1999-2004

· Summer Travel Research Grants, Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, Stanford University, 2000, 2001, 2004   

Selected Papers and Presentations:

· “’A Nation’s Strength Lies Not in Numbers:’ De-Stalinization, Pronatalism, and the Abortion Law of 1956 in Poland,” on the panel Familie und Staat, Geschlechterverhältnisse in Ostmitteleuropa nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg: Soziale Praxis und Konstruktionen von Geschlechterbildern, Bad Wiessee, Germany, 17-22 November 2005
· “A New Matriarchy? Single Womanhood in Postwar Poland, 1945-1950,” on the panel Women, Family Formation, and the State in Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies 36th National Convention, Boston, MA, 4-7 December 2004
· " Panel Chair, on the panel Beauty Queens, Social Workers, and Students: Jewish Women in Russia and Poland, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies 36th National Convention, Boston, MA, 4-7 December 2004
· “Mothers of Society: Women without Husbands in Postwar Poland, 1945-1948,” on the panel War, Revolution, and Sexuality, Sexuality and Culture Conference, Historical Institute, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland, 27-29 May 2004
· “Women Workers in Postwar Transition: Textiles and Coalmining in Poland, 1945-1948,” Russian and East European Reading Group, Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, Stanford University, 4 December 2003
· “’New Occupations and Traditional Hierarchies:’ The Case of Women Coal Miners in Postwar Poland, 1951-1957,” on the panel Work, Domesticity and the Marketplace: Women under Communism in Poland, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies 35th National Convention, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 20-23 November 2003"
· “Reinventing Gender: Women Industrial Workers and the State in Postwar Poland, 1945-1957,” 16th Annual Junior Scholars’ Training Seminar, Wye River, MD, 8-11 August 2003
· “Gender and Ideology: Women Workers’ Writings in Postwar Poland in the 1950s,” on the panel Women in Postwar Eastern Europe, Western Association of Women Historians Annual Conference, Berkeley, CA, 6-8 June 2003
· “Histoire du travail des femmes en Silésie dans les années 1950,” Séminaire Doctoral en Sciences Sociales, French Studies Institute, University of Warsaw, Poland, 19 May 2003
· “’New Occupations’ and Traditional Hierarchies: The Case of Women Coal Miners in Postwar Poland, 1951-1957,” Polish Women’s History Commission, Historical Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, 9 April 2003
· “Young Women Workers and the City: Perceptions of Female Sexuality in Poland in the 1950s,” Sexuality and Culture Conference, Historical Institute, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland, 26-27 September 2002
· “Emancipated under Socialism: Women Workers in Postwar Poland, 1945-1957,” West Coast Eastern Europeanists’ Research/Training Seminar, Stanford University, 3-4 May 2002
· “Equality through Protection: The Politics of Women’s Employment in Postwar Poland, 1945-1956,” European Workshop, Department of History, Stanford University, 30 April 2002
· “Emancipated under Socialism: The Experience of Urban Women under Stalinism in Poland, 1948-1956,” Gender Workshop, Department of History, Stanford University, 22 May 2000


Courses Taught :  

· Women and Communism in Eastern Europe and Russia
· Women and Work in Cross-Cultural and Historical Perspective
· Stalinism in Eastern Europe
· History of Poland


Professional Experience:  

· Assistant Professor, History, University of Illinois-Chicago, August 2006-present
· Lecturer, History, Stanford University, Spring 2006
· Teaching Assistant/Instructor, History, Stanford University, 2000-2002, Spring 2004



Department of History